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The Role of Marriage in Immigrants' Human Capital Investment Under Liquidity Constraints

Kahana, Nava; Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Gotlibovski, Chemi - 2021

This paper presents a two-period human capital investment model of married and single immigrants under binding … shown that the comparative advantage in investment that determines which spouse will invest more in local skills depends on … partial specialization in work and investment activities within immigrant households. However, the level invested by each …

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Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations

Docquier, Frédéric - 2006

Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants and the way it affects the well-being of those left behind. First, I present alternative...

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The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development

Cunha, Flavio - 2009

investment. Investments in capabilities are relatively more productive at some stages of a child's life cycle than others …. Optimal child investment strategies differ depending on target outcomes of interest and on the nature of adversity in a child …

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Inequality and Growth : The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills

Borissov, Kirill - 2016

We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...

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Unemployment and Productivity Growth : An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model

Pannenberg, Markus; Bräuninger, Michael - 2021

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends...

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Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation

Lekfuangfu, Warn N. - 2014

We propose a model in which parents have a subjective belief about the impact of their investment on the early skill … individuals believe that their actions can influence future outcomes. Consistent with the theory, we show that maternal LOC …

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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences

Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John; Lane, Julia; … - 2021

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

Heckman, James J. - 2012

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...

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Human Capital Mobility : Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy

Wildasin, David E. - 2014

Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...

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The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005

Boudarbat, Brahim - 2010

We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men, contrary to conclusions reached previously. Most of this rise took place in the early 1980s and since 1995....

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